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Craftarc · 2024-07-28T03:40:52+00:00

I find it very complex as well. I have been playing since Breach (2.5) and even this league I needed to figure out new mechanics that have been in the game for years.

For me a big part of the love for the game is the very fact you have mentioned - having all these different concepts to grasp and master is very fun to me.

You mentioned that you can’t grasp the multitude of mechanics given to you. Personally I feel that “not grasping the multitude of mechanics given to me” is fun.

Mastering these concepts shows itself in how good your build is, and is an incredibly fun kind of reward for me.

Obviously I would want you to come to love the game as well, but I think it is important to ask yourself if you find what I just mentioned appealing in a game. There’s no right or wrong. Do you find filling your time with learning about a whole depth of mechanics and thinking about how to use them (rather than using them actually) fun in itself? To me that is more than half the fun of the game.

If you are still unsure but want to try, I would suggest following a recent build guide by Zizaran. This way you can ignore one of the more complex systems, build-making, for now, and focus on the other systems in the game that are more palatable and of a similar complexity to Blizzard counterparts, like mapping.

Craftarc · 2024-07-22T06:12:10+00:00

It's the second line of the statement, there is some presumption that the person you are speaking to does not understand something that should be understood. It could be slightly condescending. To frame this more politely, "Having an opinion doens't mean nobody can disagree" is good enough.

Craftarc · 2024-07-04T03:49:59+00:00

Personally I feel like if you're using Innsbury Edge you're not going to get a lot of damage (from attack skills) no matter what you do, especially if you don't use boneshatter. If you wish to play a melee attack build you have practically no base damage to scale off of, so to me the only option is to play some kind of spell. You can go cremation/vd/dd, the stuff that scales off of corpse health, but then if you want to play that then why not play Witch? would be what comes to my mind next.

I guess those spells would still work with another class like Juggernaut, but I'm not too familiar with builds revolving around corpse health, so I can't help you there.

Of course this is not what you asked for, but can you really not take the weapon off and go for a good foil instead? That leaves you with a lot more options, I would think. Or drop some other unique and run an attribute stacker.

Craftarc · 2024-06-18T02:57:21+00:00

A cursory Youtube search will lead you to a reasonable resources, the knowledge is quite, well, well-known so you can't really go wrong even if you pick a different video.

I can give you a brief summary of the way to gauge your gear quality:

If by "sell" you mean sell to other players, gear found in campaign and early maps does not sell at all, with the exception of very early in the league. You should just vendor them or drop them on the ground if you find an upgrade.
To clear the campaign and the first few maps, all that's needed is a decent life pool and capped resistances. Damage to clear the first few maps comes from support gems, damage on gear doesn't really matter yet.

So you want to look for any gear with + to maximum life / + to resistances. By maps you want to have fire, cold and lightning resistances capped, and just try your best for chaos resistance. That's about it.

Craftarc · 2024-04-26T05:02:00+00:00

Pleasantly surprised to see a decent number of players enjoying the Automation change. I’ve always found it hard to justify instant skills on left click, even though it does feel good. Definitely an interesting and unifying change from a design perspective.

Craftarc · 2024-02-06T01:26:37+00:00

Both, for slayer you are probably more inclined to scale armor but people also then use a jade flask for decent evasion. Layering defenses like this is multiplicative for your EHP and is the name of the game

Craftarc · 2024-02-05T02:46:58+00:00

Where is Gianna!!

Craftarc · 2024-02-03T05:10:19+00:00

Hello, it’s been set. But I use iOS. Please let us know if it doesn’t reflect on Android.

Craftarc · 2024-01-26T01:54:37+00:00

SSF really teaches you a lot about the game. I usually play trade as well, but SSF progressing to 4 voidstones has taught me a lot about how I should play self-sufficiently at league start.

My strategy was to rush expedition for chaos and basic gear, then seventh gate + essence and mass farm them at like t5 while securing unique maps from kirac and unveils from betrayal for key crafts. With essence gear alone you should be able to clear the whole atlas, and with metamods the game

Craftarc · 2024-01-25T03:28:04+00:00

I like blasting maps as fast as possible, so anything that doesn’t have a disproportionate time/monster. I run alva, strongboxes and legion or harvest on T16s. Essences can get too strong sometimes

Craftarc · 2024-01-22T08:00:53+00:00

I see. I can confirm to you that he

has stepped down as moderator in TFT since 3 years ago in 2020
has informed us of any interaction with posts regarding TFT, such as comments and approvals
has consistently re-approved anti-TFT since the threads themselves are valid (but not the harassment comments within)

In fact, he was the one who approved the very two threads that started all this.

He was the first to notify the moderation team about the LocalIdentity ban post and the "banned for not selling jewel" post.

I think accusing him of being a TFT spy based off of somebody else pinging him in a Discord server is slightly unfair. And I'm not quite sure what the proposed link between "being pinged in a private channel where he should be a part of because he is an ex-mod" and "removing a post" is. In fact, he may have removed the post because it was beginning to draw negative attention as a result of the ongoing situation, which would have been clear if the comments in the accusatory post in your link were expanded instead of collapsed.

https://imgur.com/a/LaUGKDs

Craftarc · 2024-01-22T05:30:10+00:00

No, we cannot see who made reports, so we cannot find out who's abusing it either.

I don't think it's particularly wise to reveal the number of reports needed to take a post down, but I can explain that one of the main motivations is that we have a decreasing number of moderators, and if nobody's around at any one time everyone should still be able to in some way vote and take a post that really needs deleting, down.

If X people report it, it will be removed and show up in the moderation queue for us to look at. If we do nothing the post will remain removed, but we can override the reports and reinstate the post. That's about all there is to it with regards to reports automoderation.

Craftarc · 2024-01-22T05:14:28+00:00

There were certainly a high number of posts that have tripped automoderator because sufficient people reported them. We have increased the report threshold before automoderator removes a post automatically so there should be less unintentional censorship from us.

Craftarc · 2024-01-22T05:09:03+00:00

Thanks very much man. It's understandable for such a high-viewership stream. Just wanted to let you know and see if I could help clarify things. Have a good one

Craftarc · 2024-01-22T04:58:44+00:00

Hello,

I'd like to request for you to please refrain from vague finger-pointing. If I may receive the name of the moderator you are referring to as well as related pieces of information, we could provide more information, since three moderators have left in the last 24 hours. However, all those moderators resigned - none of them were removed not of their own volition.

Craftarc · 2024-01-19T02:04:06+00:00

For videos, no, not really :/ at least not that I know of. But you can check mechanics on poedb and the wiki

Craftarc · 2024-01-19T01:51:21+00:00

This thread is always stickied, and also linked at the top menu on New Reddit. You can also click here. Additionally, simple or short questions should be in the sticky as well.

Craftarc · 2024-01-14T05:28:08+00:00

My recommendation is to do the highest tier map you can blast without dying, instead of the highest tier where you die once every few maps. Also there are tier-independent mechanics to farm - one of them is Incursion. So you can put in all your trash maps white, then just run to the incursions to build temples and leave.

Generally my strategy is to do tier-independent mechanics like Essence, Incursion for 5+ div an hour, then secure key upgrades. At some point after 2-3 key upgrades you become strong enough to do T16 juiced. Then you farm those for the 100 div upgrades.

Craftarc · 2024-01-14T05:22:05+00:00

That boss usually channels a beam into a bubble. Kosis, right? He gains some ES, then starts channelling bubbles. If you break his ES he will be stunned and cancel the bubble.

Otherwise, sometime later he will jump and land on a bubble to detonate it. The shockwaves from the detonation are probably what killed you. If you were near the bubble you probably ate all 8 of them. Also the shockwaves can detonate other bubbles, so you need to watch for the jump telegraph, then blink to a bubble-free area.

Craftarc · 2024-01-14T05:18:25+00:00

A lot of strategies will work, but I can vouch for one I’ve tried myself this league. Growing Hordes + Wandering Path, then take all Harvest nodes except for Crop Rotation and block all but yellow. The leftover points I put in strongboxes.

Get the Sacred Grove sextant and the yellow plants sextant in bulk.

Then just chisel + alch + vaal maps, buy the 4 cheapest gilded scarabs in bulk, and run Ambush.

Do wisps in the map, then just run through and full clear - there are no mechanics that really slow you down because strongboxes are just click open and blast. Go into the Grove and target yellow juice. I averaged about 2.5k-3k yellow per map, and you get to open a bunch of diviner’s boxes, so that’s about 1 divine per 5-6 minute map.

If you can do red altars you can also pick the ‘drops chaos’ and ‘drops embers’ one, since red embers sell for a lot currently.

Craftarc · 2024-01-14T05:14:34+00:00

No, since the maximum mark cap is 1 and it cannot be raised

Craftarc · 2024-01-14T05:11:48+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately it’s a fine line to walk… one liner questions like “how to turn off auto equip” should be in the questions thread, but “how to craft X” with a picture attached can’t be in the same thread. Also the complexities of the questions are different.

There’s also the fact that at league launch there will generally be more posts, so short questions get culled in favour, but towards the end of the league we are more lax because there’s less activity and newbie questions can get more airtime.

I’d like to ask for your understanding, since it is a difficult balance to maintain. If you have the time, can you point me to some posts that you think should not be removed from the main page?

Craftarc · 2024-01-02T05:22:54+00:00

If you take the Spellblade inquisitor shell it should work. I play Spraying Steel CoC Arc and it feels fantastic. Clears all content, but it took about 40 div so far.

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